French bread is stuffed with meat and veggies and other stuff that can soak up all the booze.

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As a scientist, she was obsessed with discovering how to make perfect French bread with American all-purpose flour in an American oven.

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It is widely believed the sandwich - french bread filled with a variety of ingredients - was made popular during the 1929 streetcar strike.

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She has a gallon of water on her desk at work. ("I'm constantly going to the bathroom, " she says.) She's given up French fries and French bread, possibly her two biggest diet downfalls, although she gives herself permission to splurge during one meal a week.

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If they had a good day selling papers -- they had enough to give to their mammas, and then some -- Frank would stop with the other guys at the U.S. Restaurant, on Columbus: fried ham on French bread, a big sandwich for a dime.

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In the past, he would typically consume a salad, a bowl of onion soup, a 14-ounce rib-eye steak with french fries, vegetables, bread and butter and a dessert--all washed down with diet Coke.

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The French eat tons of cheese and bread and butter-soaked cuisine, yet they know when to stop.

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This includes the triangles of bread favoured by the British and the French version made with a baguette.

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This is particularly true of hotels and how they deal with toasting bread, frying eggs, arranging lettuce, crisping bacon and cooking French fries.

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The standout is the formal Penrose Room, serving contemporary French cuisine with a Colorado game and produce twist, and sides like foie gras bread pudding.

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